Ces détraqués : thèse crazy people

Page 149. — z. Le Chat Maigre. Jocaste, ou le Chat Maigre, one of Anatole France's novels.

2. Un carabin : a médical student, a sawbones. The origin of carabin is unknown ; it is of récent date only that it has been applied with a disparaging meaning to médical students ; at first it was the name of a soldier of light cavalry, a kind of scout.

Page 150. — 1. Les économiques, attributed to Aristotle, are in reality the work of Theophrastes ; they are, it is true, but an extract of the Ethics and the Politics of Aristotle.